Knives Quotes - Page 24

• You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.

  Nick Hornby

  Life, Happiness, People

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• Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhism, Hands, Giving

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.29, New World Library

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• Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Black, Done

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• You put on such a brave front. But I know if I took another step toward you, you'd wet your pants." "With your blood." I brandished my knife. But I couldn't keep a straight face; the boast sounded ridiculous even to my own ears. I snickered. She laughed. The release of tension made me giddy, and soon I was laughing and crying.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Blood, Laughing, Brave

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• If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter." Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?" "Yes, Nick. That's exactly what I do. There's just not enough of it." Now, there was some sarcasm you could cut with a knife.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Cutting, Dark

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• The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

  Bruno Schulz

  Cutting, Years, Boredom

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.

  Judith McNaught

  Heartbroken, Husband, Papa

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• Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Fire, Space, Trying

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Outside In”, p.166, Harlequin

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• A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sky, White, Essentials

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.52, Hamilton Books

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• I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cheer, Fall, Knowing

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.524, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair and the glassy eyes stared inhumanly, but it wasn’t a mask, it couldn’t be. The skin had been powdered dead-white and two hectic spots of rouge centered on the cheekbones. It wasn’t a mask. It was the face of a crazy old woman. Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher’s knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.

  Robert Bloch

  Crazy, Eye, Cutting

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.24, The Overlook Press

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• What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.

  Kiersten White

  Sexy, Flirting, Thinking

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• I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Cutting, Pie, Giving

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• And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Thinking, Inspiring Love

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

  Joe Hill

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Dream, Heart, Kissing

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• The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

  Steven Pinker

  Blow, Oxygen, Soul

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

  Helene Hanff

  Mother, People, Perfect

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• A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Kitchen, Kitchen Knives

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• I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

  Joe Namath

  Animal, Thinking, Causes

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• I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

  Taylor Momsen

  Black, Relax, Favourite

  "What's the gossip on knives, Metro?". www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

  Marissa Mayer

  Army, Simple, Thinking

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• I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

  Kellan Lutz

  Art, Brother, Kids

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• Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

  Vera Farmiga

  Bread

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• There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

  Jenny Eclair

  Breakfast, Down And, Poor

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